ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Spatial Spillover Effect of Strategic Eemerging
Industry Agglomeration and Green Economic
Efficiency in China
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School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
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School of Economics and Management, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China
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School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
Submission date: 2019-10-10
Final revision date: 2020-01-09
Acceptance date: 2020-01-11
Online publication date: 2020-04-16
Publication date: 2020-06-08
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Chengxuan Geng
School of Economics And Management, Nanjing University Of Aeronautics And Astronautics, 211106, Nanjing, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2020;29(5):3901-3914
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Strategic emerging industries are key areas to promote industrial restructuring in China.
Simultaneously, the government is focusing on the green economy for economic development.
However, few studies have discussed the influence of strategic emerging industrial agglomeration
on green economic efficiency. This study fills this gap based on the theory of location entropy and
the super SBM model considering a non-expected output. A spatial Durbin model is introduced, and
panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2012 to 2016 are selected to test the spatial spillover effect of
strategic emerging industries on green economic efficiency. We found that: (1) China’s overall strategic
geographical spatial agglomeration shows a weakening trend from east to west, which is consistent with
regional economic development, (2) green economic efficiency in most regions is below the forefront
of production and economic, technological and labour input, (3) the direct effect of strategic emerging
industrial agglomeration on green economic efficiency is significantly positive, the indirect effect is
not significant, and the total effect is significantly positive, and (4) the direct, indirect, and total effects
of economic development level, industrial structure, energy structure, foreign direct investment, and
urbanization level on green economic efficiency are different.